A man who started what he calls the “Genesis II Church” and reportedly claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy keeps finding success in selling some autism parents on “bleach as autism cure.” The latest story about Jim Humble and his "cure" comes from Saskatchewan, although evidence suggests that parents in many parts of the world continue to dose their children orally or by enema with bleach solution, all on the “autism cure” promise.

In addition to being a god of finite age from a galaxy far, far away, the inaptly named Humble also purports to be here with some friends to save the Earth, which evidently requires peddling his product as a cure for “95% of all diseases.” His book pushing his concoction as a “21st century breakthrough” is listed on Amazon, with 90 reviews and 3.5 stars and some glowing feedback of uncertain origin.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) begs to differ with the glow and the promises, citing the bleach product in a warning to those seeking autism treatments. Says the FDA:

This product becomes a potent chemical that's used as bleach when mixed according to package directions. FDA has received reports of consumers who say they experienced nausea, severe vomiting and life-threatening low blood pressure after drinking the MMS and citrus juice mixture.

Repeated warnings have not deterred some who peddle it. In February, a fellow in Europe by the name of Leonardo Edwards, who considers himself a “bishop” in the Genesis II "church," was reportedly relieved of custody of his newborn child by European authorities because of his bleach-selling commitment. And warnings and evidence didn’t deter the million-plus-follower “March Against Monsanto” group from promoting this "treatment" in October as an "alternative therapy" that has "clear results."

Parents who are trying MMS to "cure" autism find their way to MMS-specific Facebook groups, where they post what their children are experiencing with the "treatment" and horrifying images of what MMS peddlers claim are parasites but what really is probably bowel lining. Kerri Rivera, a repeatspeaker at the premier autism quackery conference AutismOne and dedicated promoter of this concoction as an autism cure, appears to advise one parent on a Facebook page that MMS can be used in a child as young as age 10 months.

Rivera’s related book, Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism, averages 3.5 stars at Amazon, with 374 reviews. On Facebook, posts about experiences with Rivera’s "protocol" can be horrifying in the denial the parents exhibit:

My daughter vomits every day now. We have been on cd [Kerri Rivera’s term for the bleach "treatment" of chlorine dioxide] for 2 months-and since 1 month she is vomiting, almost every day. Sometimes twice, today 3 times! Have any of you had this?

Vomiting has been suggested as sign of toxicity from CD, but MMS/CD proponents claim that nausea and vomiting indicate that the product is "working."

From another parent on a Facebook MMS page:

...my son [redacted], 10 yrs old. Seems to want to vomit at the very end of each enema these days. … Why is this? We put 10 ml of cd in his enema.

Many autistic people can be nonspeaking, and autism is characterized specifically by communication difficulties. So how some of these children feel about being dosed orally or by enema with bleach solution and about vomiting, shedding intestinal lining and having intestinal bleeding is not known. One adult user of MMS described the experience as like “drinking battery acid.”